Two helpful research links: The United Holocaust Memorial Museum: the starting place for all of your Internet research Easy Bib: your best friend when it comes to making a Works Cited page!
Section 1 Ideas:
Nazi symbol came from a church
Hitler wanted to be an art major, was homeless for 3 years, enlisted as a soldier at 25, involved in WWI
The many times he did not die (what Hitler thought of it)
Assassination attempts
Gift of public speaking
His actions after being elected -- what he pretended versus what he really intended
Non-aggression Act
Kept the plan for war a secret from the Germans
Hitler Youth
Hitler's illnesses? Was there something wrong?
Got married two days before suicide
Elie Wiesel:
15 when went to the camps
Teacher who likes to help people
Spent time at Auschwitz and moved to Buchenwald
Really likes children
He regrets the most that he let his father die alone
Sent to an orphanage after liberation
Won the Nobel Peace Prize
Never hated anyone (his mission in life)
Met his sisters after the war in Paris
Doesn't know why he survived and is not comfortable with it
Married with a son (allowed his son to bring up his past)
Has written more than 50 books
Despite having books and these stories, you can never really know what it was like -- need to at least go there
In the camps, he learned that if you were a killer, you were meant to kill, otherwise, you were meant to die
Section 2 Ideas:
WWII
Hitler was a very good artist (watercolor)
Nazi symbol came from a church
Hitler's health issues: left arm numbness, hypochondriac, not mad ... abnormal?
Top of his class as a child, architecture, speaking, Iron Cross award (liked being a soldier)
Eva Braun
Wrote Mein Kampf
The German people: did not know he wanted war, Hitler blew off treaties, he did not want to go to war against Britain and France
Victims: Jewish, twins, homosexuals, Russians POW, Gypsies, political prisoners
Elie Wiesel:
Professor, activist, writer, won Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
Even though all this was done to him, he does not hate the people who did it
Did not want to survive but did anyway
Tutor, choir director, reporter throughout his life
Works with people
Post the war, went to an orphanage in France (liberation)
Relationship with dad in the camps
Reunited with both sisters
When someone does not have gratitude, something is missing
Did not know why he survived -- why would God choose him and not others
He lost belief in God during the war
He only has a few answers and even now has not figured everything out
Because he survived, he feels he owes it to work for people and help them
The Holocaust
By Mrs. Nobles
What is the Holocaust FAQs assignment?
What are the guidelines?
How will my FAQs be evaluated?
Can you show me an example of a FAQs project?
(Here is last year's wiki so you can see more of them)
Two helpful research links:
The United Holocaust Memorial Museum: the starting place for all of your Internet research
Easy Bib: your best friend when it comes to making a Works Cited page!
Section 1 Ideas:
Elie Wiesel:
Section 2 Ideas:
WWII
- Hitler was a very good artist (watercolor)
- Nazi symbol came from a church
- Hitler's health issues: left arm numbness, hypochondriac, not mad ... abnormal?
- Top of his class as a child, architecture, speaking, Iron Cross award (liked being a soldier)
- Eva Braun
- Wrote Mein Kampf
- The German people: did not know he wanted war, Hitler blew off treaties, he did not want to go to war against Britain and France
- Victims: Jewish, twins, homosexuals, Russians POW, Gypsies, political prisoners
Elie Wiesel: